Arch in a VBox

BigAl-sa said:
Can anyone tell me if Arch has a decent GUI package manager such as synaptic? I'm looking for something where I can see at a glance what is installed, and what can be installed.
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Shaman. The only one I have used a lot and trust.


adrianx said:
B.t.w. have you installed an AUR helper yet? I use clyde, but yaourt is also very popular.
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Instead of yaourt try packer. Packer has kinda stolen yaourts fame.
 
Thanks guys, I've downloaded and installed clyde, will try the other goeters too.

I see when googling, a lot of hits go to bbs.archlinux.org. Neither FF nor Chrome think I should go there (untrusted connection). Any thoughts?
 
They have recently moved from http to https.
Good morning,

I just switched bbs.archlinux.org to use only https. http users are redirected automatically to https, so the transition should be without trouble. There is a catch though:

1) Apache configures SSL per-vhost. That means that even though we have a wildcard certificate, the browser must support SNI for name-based vhosts to work. All clients that are not SNI-capable will be redirected to www instead.
2) wget doesn't like wildcard certificates. That means you need to use --no-check-certificate with wget.
3) Our certificate is from CACert. AFAIK, this is not included in many browsers by default. If you use Arch Linux, at least everything that uses the OpenSSL certificate store and all Mozilla browsers are CACert-enabled - on other operating systems, our certificate might show up as untrusted.

Let me know if there are any problems.
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From: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=101123
 
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Thanks!

I've just tried to use clyde to install shaman, and the installation dies because something required by shaman, called aqpm, is out of date :(
 
It did not seem like a very popular package (only 5 votes), which leads one to believe that shaman isn't so popular either.
 
MyWorld said:
It did not seem like a very popular package (only 5 votes), which leads one to believe that shaman isn't so popular either.
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Shaman is part of the Chakra project. Don't let the votes confuse you, most GTK users have an aversion towards QT apps and vice versa.

GTK should just die as far as I'm concerned as QT is better platform available on more operating systems. I don't like mixing them either and I use openbox a lot with GTK apps.
 
I'm beginning to like this Arch business - having been a developer on the UNIX SVID i386 kernel - it appeals to me. Especially, with trying out Gnome, and being able to install the bits and pieces that I think is necessary.

[ps: I think xfce is a waste of time (apart from thunar which may have something going with the batch file rename thing)]
 
BigAl-sa, it also uses Unix style init scripts.

The way the config files are structured is also a plus.

It's just a lovely distro for those that are willing to get their hands dirty a bit.
 
I hope this isn't useless information. :erm:

One of my main gripes with clyde was that I always had to type "sudo clyde...".

Here is the solution, just put this in ~/.bashrc
Code: 
clyde() {
    case $1 in
        (-Ss | -Si | -Q* | -T | -G)
            /usr/bin/clyde "$@" ;;
        (-S* | -R* | -U | *)
            /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/clyde "$@" ;;
     esac
}

Edit (afterthought):
Of course, you need to do this first:
Code: 
$ sudo visudo
...and add
Code: 
[I][COLOR="DarkRed"]user[/COLOR][/I] ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/clyde
user = you :)
 
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Had a chance to play with arch again. Used clyde to install chromium, and am writing this from chromium. Interestingly enough, I've only installed the dejavu fonts in arch, and it doesn't look too bad, considering the problems that kingrob had with chrome.
 
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